LONDON POLICE METHODS.
WHAT A NEW YORK. OFFICIAL OBSERVED. Captain Piper, Deputy Police Commissioner cf New York, recently visited London, to investigate the police methods of handling crowds, the icgulation. of the sale of liquor, eto. He had an excellent opportunity of watching the police on tho day ihe King opened Parliament. Captain Piper declares that " the Lo-ndon police handle tho traffic very skilfully, but it moves more rapidly than in New York, and is under better control. The drivers obey Ihe police better, and there are fewer blockades." He added that he noticed that when the London police wished the people in crowds to fall, back, they pushed back the front line. Ho thought the New York policeman's method of reaching his club over the people's heads, and prodding those in the roar, thus causing them to fall back, was more practicable. The " New York Her;ild" remarked that "Captain Piper evidently loses sight of the fact that the London crowd, wliiltv good-naturedly submitting to being pushed back by the police, would raise a riot if the 'bobbies' touched them with their batons."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7676, 8 April 1903, Page 2
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183LONDON POLICE METHODS. Star (Christchurch), Issue 7676, 8 April 1903, Page 2
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